Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn's chief librarian had had enough. Last week Dr. Milton James Ferguson announced that henceforth Brooklyn libraries would turn deaf ears to telephoned quiz queries from radio fans...
...headlines almost daily-Marshal Fevsi Çakmak. Princess Sukhodhaya, Sir Ofori Atta. And rare is the week that strange place names don't pop up, as the news shifts around from earthquakes in the Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners. It's a tough job. For example, one Siamese name, recently added to the files, was transliterated seven different ways...
Although some 41,000 new items were added to the library during the last fiscal year, experts see no danger of crowding. The library, probably because of its Grand Central Station-like construction, still has ample room for its 175 employees, ranging from the head librarian to the blonde in the archives, and for a steady stream of scholars...
Finding this raw material quickly and completely demands patience, imagination and a real knowledge of the resources of the morgue each librarian is responsible for. Their work, however, would be painfully handicapped if the morgue were left to sprout at will. To keep it vigorous, its files have to be constantly pruned of dead material. For example, although some 600 new names are added to the biography file every month, an equal number of folders whose subjects are no longer of news interest are weeded out - illustrative, perhaps, of a journalistic axiom that it takes a very staunch, or lucky...
Mctecalf, who bears the title of Librarian of the College Library, Director of the University Library, and professor of bibliography, said Widener's primary function is as a research library. "Money is given to us to spend on research material, and we buy for research purposes. Our interest in books is to have them 10 or 15 years from now for research...